Team
Kevin
CEO/Sales
Kevin has 15 years of experience in integrated manufacturing and supply chain solutions for IoT and connected devices with a focus on scaled production in Asia. Through his experience at Brinc (Hong Kong’s largest venture accelerator) and supporting university entrepreneurship programs he has acted as a mentor and advisor for over 300 global tech startups. Kevin has an MBA from UNC Charlotte Belk School of Business and extensive experience driving early stage innovation and commercialization of new technology.
Narendra Shankar
Co-Founder & CTO
Narendra brings 20 years of industry experience as a technology leader, product architect, developer and innovator spanning a vast range of technologies. He has working experience in multiple domains including internet, telecom, enterprise, embedded and real time control systems. In his role as the CTO, he provides the technical vision that sets the focus and direction of the technology road map of the company.
He has held different positions in companies like Motorola, MobiApps (now Digi International), Cyient. Narendra has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mysore.
WY Chan
Co-Founder & COO
He has more than 20 years of project management, product engineering, manufacturing and operations experience in multinational companies. He has also been involved in the development of some very first fitness wearable products in the market such as Nike Fuelband, Fitbit Fitness Trackers when he worked for Nike and Fitbit in the past years. He is now the COO of the company oversees the operations, supply chains and product manufacturing and quality.
Dr Manoj Yadav
Head and Consultant Pulmonologist
MD, MBBS, Kailash Hospital, Centre for Respiratory Care, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Dr Yadav is the Principal Investigator for a’ware product leading CTRI registered trials in India.
Thomas Cheung
Advisor
Thomas is the founder of several corporate and investment companies, including Chinagrowth Limited which invest in real estate and renewable energy, Hkbcmedia Limited, XIPS Technology Limited, GlobalSTOx Limited, etc.
Jamshed Daboo
Advisor – B2B Sales
Jamshed Daboo had career with the Tata Group spanning nearly thirty-four years in the consumer, brand, hospitality and retail space. Over twenty years of experience in heading profit centers and businesses. He was CEO of Tata Quality Management Systtems, Head of Tata Capital and also COO of Taj hotels.
Mike Mastroyiannis
Chief Advisor
Mike Mastroyiannis is Innovation Management Consultant as well as Business & Management Coach. He has served 4X as CEO of Global Business units in Multinationals ( Philips Electronics, Siemens ), he founded and/or lead 3 technology start ups and has 3 decades of leadership experience with at least 3X fast turnarounds. He worked in both B2C and B2B industries ( Consumer Electronics, Digital Communications, Energy Efficiency and Digital Lighting Solutions), has created and lead innovative scalable global portfolios and systems, he is reinventing, simplifying, automating, growing effectively and leveraging the community as well as external assets.
Experience : Transformational Leadership and Innovation, Product Strategy and Planning, R&D, Turnaround Management, Business Unit Management ,Founding and Leadership of new businesses, Linear to Exponential organizations , Business Model innovation , Lean Innovation, Joint Ventures , Advisory boards . He has 3 university degrees, has lived in 6 countries in Europe and Asia and now lives in Hong Kong.
Dr Renu Bhatia
Advisor- Finance/Strategy
Renu Bhatia is a senior executive with a proven track record in fintech and health tech. She is also Co -founder of Asia Fintech Angels and Founding Partner of Supercharger. She has extensive experience in investment banking, asset management and private investments, having worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and HSBC in Hong Kong. Renu is advisor to several startups in both fintech and health tech. Renu was recognized as Asia Fintech 100 Leader in 2016, and a top 100 women leader in Fintech in 2017 and 2018.
Renu is a member of the following Committees:
Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Sub Committee on COG and ESG
Fintech Steering Committee at the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce.
Cyberport Entrepreneurship Committee
Advisor Hong Kong Baptist University Business School.
International Council of Advisors Orion Astropreneur Space Academy (Hong Kong)
Member of the Board of Review for the Inland Revenue Department
Renu has an MBBS from the University of London and an MBA from Yale University.
Girish Shah
Advisor – B2B Sales
Girish is a leading marketing, sales and general management professional with over 25 years of experience most of it as head of marketing and sales and head of profit centre across consumer goods and service sectors. Among the leadership roles that he has played are assignments with Reckitt & Colman, Johnson & Johnson, Scottish & Newcastle, Godrej Properties and Knight Frank. In most of these roles he has been involved in building brands and business units via launches of products and new verticals and go to market strategies which have delivered business turnarounds.
Girish has a rich and diversified background panning across sectors and in all his roles he has been able to demonstrate unusual achievement in both sales ,market share and profit growth. He has done that with an approach of innovation and infusing passion and dynamism in the teams he has led.
Girish has numerous industry awards and recognition to his credit and is a highly sought after speaker at international forums.